February 2011
This storm tomorrow is expected to stretch from New Mexico to Maine. And yet, DC’s only getting rain. Full post: http://p-bu.mp/b14
Photos of the New York subway in the late ’70s. Full post: http://p-bu.mp/b13
It’s official: Meg Whitman spent $43.25 for each of her votes - and lost by 13 points. Full post: http://p-bu.mp/b12
Nice try, parents. Now science has proven that having children is a drag. Just as I suspected. Full post: http://p-bu.mp/b11
Mother Jones demonstrates how to do “know your audience” right, with an article discussing the toxins in marijuana. Full post: http://p-bu.mp/b10
January 2011
Camille Grammer claims her marriage was ruined when Kelsey chose Fox News over her. Don’t make me like you, Camille. Full post: http://p-bu.mp/b0z
Esquire’s Foster Kamer calls out the cult of Julian Assange. A bit over-the-top, but generally right on. Full post: http://p-bu.mp/b0y
Sharron Angle may not be changing the world as a Senator in DC, but she’s still delivering for Americans: with make-up tips! I suspect she’s as good a source for thoughtful Senate policy as she is for make-up tips. Full post: http://p-bu.mp/b0x
The main feedback in the comments on this article about Kanye’s web presence: belittling comparisons from 50 Cent’s web guy. Full post: http://p-bu.mp/b0w
Robert Scoble addresses the unearned follows that established personalities earn on new social networks, whether or not they’re engaged on it. Full post: http://p-bu.mp/b0v
Here’s a surprise: per these military records, Jimi Hendrix wasn’t a very good soldier. If he wasn’t taking naps or playing the guitar, he was doing… other things. Full post: http://p-bu.mp/b0u
Fox’s post-State of the Union go-to guy for analysis? Frank Luntz, the guy literally hired by the Republicans to develop messaging that undermined the President. How can deceptive, dishonest nonsense like this not undermine confidence in scientific polling? Full post: http://p-bu.mp/b0t
Boston.com puts the city’s abnormal amount of snow in terms its readers can understand: how it stacks up to Shaq. Shaq tall! Full post: http://p-bu.mp/b0s
This Department of Justice training video on strip searches is basically gay porn with out any sex. The production values don’t help. Full post: http://p-bu.mp/b0r
Why is Obama not the Foursquare Mayor of the White House? I didn’t vote for Ana M. And shouldn’t Bloomberg be Mayor New York City Hall? I’m not sure the system works properly. Full post: http://p-bu.mp/b0q
Watching Kennedys’ Home Movies on TLC. Wonderful footage. Can never get enough of RFK.
To save money, towns are tearing up asphalt roads and replacing them with gravel. This is the conservative vision for government. Full post: http://p-bu.mp/b0o
Stephen Wolfram (of Wolfram|Alpha) determines that Google would beat Bing and Ask at Jeopardy. Ken Jennings, though, would beat them all. Full post: http://p-bu.mp/b0n
A good follow-up piece from the New Yorker on their 2009 profile of Hosni and Gamal Mubarak. Full post: http://p-bu.mp/b0m
Border Patrol discovered Mexican drug traffickers launching pot over the border using a catapult. I blame MythBusters. Full post: http://p-bu.mp/b0l
Why New York City is called “Gotham”. Full post: http://p-bu.mp/b0k
Oh, man. An absolutely brutal takedown of the WEF gathering in Davos, in light of the turmoil in Egypt. Full post: http://p-bu.mp/b0j
Obama called leaders of countries in the Middle East and told them that the United States supports “an orderly transition to a government that is responsive to the aspirations of the Egyptian people.” Full post: http://p-bu.mp/b0i
MLK III is rumored to be one of the investors looking at buying the Mets. Which means this is the time to get out ahead of the pack on the “I have a dream” jokes. Full post: http://p-bu.mp/b0h
Tomorrow night’s curfew in Egypt has been set an hour earlier. Because that’s why no one was respecting the curfew. It started too late.
No matter how you feel about Fox News’ coverage of Egypt, it’s a big step up from 2009 when they weren’t sure where the place was. Full post: http://p-bu.mp/b0f
One of the key lessons of Egypt today is that it’s far easier to accept power than to surrender it. Important for El-Baradei to remember.
Already retweeted this, but this brief video clip of a street in Cairo as fighter jets fly over is packed with interesting details. Full post: http://p-bu.mp/b0d
The web site for Oh Land is nicely done. Full post: http://p-bu.mp/b0c
Interesting contrast between the reminiscences of the Freedom Riders (via Steve Silberman) and interviews with members of the burgeoning population of mixed-race college students (via Roger Ebert). Full post: http://p-bu.mp/b0b
Folding the pages of books into word art. Full post: http://p-bu.mp/b0a
The Times has an interactive map displaying locations and photos from today’s protests in Cairo. Full post: http://p-bu.mp/b09
The Awl’s guy in Egypt (who predicted turmoil last week) describes being an expat in the middle of a revolution. Full post: http://p-bu.mp/b08
The person who is 1,845th in line to assume the British throne is named Carlos Keen. King Carlos. The House of Keen. Full post: http://p-bu.mp/b07
Only someone with no management experience would want to rule the world.
1994-era Katie Couric and Bryant Gumbel try and figure out what the Internet is, what “@” is short for. Full post: http://p-bu.mp/b05
For the second year in a row, there were more military suicides than combat deaths. Full post: http://p-bu.mp/b04
Egypt swears in a new Vice President, Omar Suleiman, the first VP since… Hosni Mubarak. He’s considered heir apparent. Full post: http://p-bu.mp/b03
I always wondered what chihuahua puppies looked like. This, apparently. Full post: http://p-bu.mp/b02
China is blocking “Egypt” on Twitter. Oh, what a tangled web we weave. (So to speak.) Full post: http://p-bu.mp/b01
[Kim Kardashian] tithes 10% of her earnings to a church… Oh! …co-founded by her mother. Oh. Is this the new Swiss bank account, with a bonus of being a tax writeoff? Full post: http://p-bu.mp/b00
What’s that? Have I ever been tear-gassed? Why, yes I have - while walking in the wrong area of Columbus after an Ohio State game that led to student rambunctiousness.
Here’s a contemporaneous news report of how Hosni Mubarak came to power: the assassination of Anwar Sadat in 1981, as Mubarak stood beside him. Full post: http://p-bu.mp/azy
For context, people have lived in and around Cairo for 5,500 years. The recent unrest has been three of its 2,700,000 days.
Just off of City Hall Park in New York is a beautiful, unique building that has lain dormant for a decade - with parts shuttered since 1940. Full post: http://p-bu.mp/azw
On the 25th anniversary of the Challenger explosion, NPR has the story of astronaut Ron McNair. Stick around for the last line. Full post: http://p-bu.mp/azv
The most interesting thing about this video of protestors clashing with police on a Cairo bridge is wondering what the barge pilot passing underneath thought. Full post: http://p-bu.mp/azu
It takes an astonishing amount of ego to have millions of furious people want to be rid of you, to have an entire country in turmoil - and insist on staying.
According to Robert Gibbs, Internet access is in the “fundamental basket” of human rights. Full post: http://p-bu.mp/azs
Choire Sicha picks up on an interesting point in the Egypt situation: the role of unions. Full post: http://p-bu.mp/azr